{"id":561613,"date":"2026-07-27T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/561613\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:28:07","slug":"ammonia-leak-forces-evacuation-as-fire-tears-through-sderot-industrial-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/561613\/","title":{"rendered":"Ammonia Leak Forces Evacuation As Fire Tears Through Sderot Industrial Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">A fire broke out Monday at two factories in the Sha&#8217;ar Hanegev Industrial Zone near Sderot, prompting a large-scale response from Israel Fire and Rescue, according to the service&#8217;s Southern District spokesperson. The fire and rescue service said it received a report about heavy smoke rising from the industrial zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Firefighters who arrived at the scene found the blaze burning across two facilities, identified as the Strauss and Tefogen factories. &#8220;Firefighters are working at the scene in an effort to contain the spread of the fire, gain control of the incident, and prevent damage to nearby buildings,&#8221; the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Officials say an ammonia leak had been detected at one of the factories during firefighting operations. As a result, authorities ordered the evacuation of everyone in the industrial zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Thirteen fire crews were operating at the scene as of the latest update, with additional forces arriving from other districts to assist. More units were said to be en route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">No injuries had been reported. The cause of the fire was not immediately known, and it was unclear when the industrial zone would reopen to those evacuated.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"West Bank violence: settlers set fire to mosques, car, farm land after deadly clash\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/api-uploaded\/WILDMOKA_67254715876.jpg\"\/>West Bank violence: settlers set fire to mosques, car, farm land after deadly clash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire broke out Monday at two factories in the Sha&#8217;ar Hanegev Industrial Zone near Sderot, prompting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-561613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}